Mitigating Cyber Risk

"Cyber Security" crosses borders and presents challenges for corporations, their customers, suppliers, and advisors. Kroll’s cyber practice has been at the cutting edge of defending against and responding to cyber breaches for more than 20 years. The practice is led by Timothy P. Ryan, a former Supervisory Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), where he supervised the largest Cyber Squad in the United States and also led one of the FBI’s largest computer forensic laboratories.

Brian Weihs and Ian Cook with Kroll Investigations and Disputes and John Fanning with Kroll Compliance

Whether operating in the region or conducting business through third parties, the shifting risk and regulatory landscape in Latin America poses many challenges. With local nuances, a one-size-fits-all approach to compliance and due diligence might do little more than provide a false sense of security.

Join Kroll's experts as they discuss the changing risk environment in Latin America and the potential implications on your risk mitigation and due diligence programs in the region.

Agenda:

- Corruption risks and trends in Latin America

- Understanding local nuances: What you need to know when conducting business with third parties in the region

In today’s complex and ever-changing security landscape, every C-Suite and Board knows of cyber risk, but what does it really mean to be prepared to respond to a data breach incident? Top executives do not have to become cyber security experts, but they must make sure their organization’s breach response plans and strategies are defined and set. While they will not directly lead technical, legal and notification efforts to address data breaches, they do need to act as internal champions of proper planning and prevention.

Identifying and closing security gaps, directing communication channels, and developing and regularly testing incident response plans are as important now as managing any other business risk or concern. Therefore, company leadership must take charge and direct their organizations to conduct extensive preparation efforts to mitigate those risks and make certain everyone stands ready to execute against the established procedures and policies when a breach occurs.
In this webinar, you will hear from experts who have been on the inside and outside of data breach response efforts. You will learn:

•Why the C-Suite and Board need to champion planning and prevention efforts.
•How to get Executive buy-in.
•Ways to build stronger response structures from the top.
•How to construct response architectures. Who needs to be responsible for what?
•Cyber Risk – What are the latest threats and what does the C-Suite and Board need to understand?
•Developing and directing an Incident Response Plan: Where do the C-Suite and Board fit in?
•Examples our experts have seen – the good and the bad

Reshmi Khurana, Kroll’s Managing Director and Head of South Asia, and Tarun Bhatia, Managing Director at Kroll

India remains an attractive destination for foreign investors as its economic fundamentals and optimism about its prospects remain strong. From a macroeconomic perspective, India is one of the fastest growing major emerging markets, with recent projections from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) pointing to a fiscal growth of 7.4% versus a 6.6% expansion in China for 2016. Politically, it is more stable than in previous cycles, with the BJP led government initiating a number of reforms and regulatory measures that are instilling economic confidence and raising India’s attractiveness as a destination for FDI. The country’s demographics are equally promising: India is home to 18% of the world’s working-age population (ages 15-64), a growing middle class with increasing purchasing power and a corporate sector that is flexing its muscle domestically and globally.

Join Kroll’s team as they share the shifting dynamics of investing in India, replete with both risks and rich rewards at every turn. It includes an in-depth commentary by Reshmi Khurana, Kroll’s Managing Director and Head of South Asia, and Tarun Bhatia, Managing Director at Kroll, who will discuss the most urgent risks of cross-border deal-making, offering insights on conducting pre-transactional due diligence on

In 2015, charitable donations to colleges and universities reached an all-time high of $40.3 billion. As university endowments seek greater returns in a diverse international marketplace, the challenges from investing in funds in high-risk jurisdictions increase exponentially.

Join Kroll Associate Managing Director John Arvanitis and guest Michael A. Lukasek, CPA, Managing Director of the University of Pennsylvania’s Office of Investments, to discuss how to build a world-class compliance program for endowments. Participants in this webinar will gain insights into topics including:

Best practices for vetting and engaging with investments and fund managers in high-risk jurisdictions.
How to establish protocols in preparation for the compliance requirements of the changing regulatory environment.

Three reasons why you join us on July 15

1. Regulatory regimes around the world are evolving and expanding. Higher education endowments must ensure compliance with not only all federal and state laws, but increasingly, foreign regulations as well.
2. Recently, a number of legislative proposals have been advanced that seek to regulate endowment activity and revoke tax-exempt status, leading to heightened scrutiny of and public visibility into endowments and their activities.
3. Expanding into high-return but high-risk jurisdictions can also intensify reputational risks to institutions.

Earlier this year, hundreds of senior compliance leaders told Kroll and Ethisphere what they perceive to be their greatest risks in our 2016 Anti-Bribery and Corruption Report. Do you share the same challenges? Are you aware of or giving the requisite attention to new risks that have emerged? More important, what are the most effective ways to stay ahead of bribery and corruption challenges in 2016 and beyond?

In this interactive webinar on June 22, you will have the opportunity to learn about proven strategies and best practices for solving compliance challenges from our world-leading experts in FCPA, UK Bribery Act, and the growing number of international compliance laws.

Join in the conversation with Kevin Braine and Joe Spinelli from Kroll, and Erica Salmon Byrne from Ethisphere, as they share their insights on the practical implications of the most significant findings in the ABC Report, including the growing concerns over personal liability. All participants will also receive a digital copy of the ABC Report with statistics helpful for benchmarking their compliance programs.

Vietnam continues to be a major foreign direct investment destination in Asia Pacific. The country has positive macro-economic factors demonstrated by its solid and continued GDP growth, a number of free trade agreements, improving infrastructure and a young demographic and low labor costs which has encouraged businesses to relocate there. However, there remain a number of potential uncertainties and risks for inbound investors given the new government administration following the Communist Party of Vietnam’s 12th National Congress in January. The geo-political situation around the South China Sea is also an issue for those operating in Vietnam, and limitations in obtaining information and disclosures can present challenges to parties executing transactions.

Join Kroll and Duane Morris to learn about the risks and opportunities offered by Vietnam. Richard Dailly, Managing Director at Kroll, Giles Cooper, Partner, and Manfred Otto, Associate at Duane Morris will share more about Vietnam as an investment destination, what the legal and political risks are of doing business there and how the new administration and free trade agreements could affect inward foreign investment. They will also address the complexities of running a business in Vietnam, reviewing operational risks from investigations Kroll has conducted, Duane Morris's experiences with respect to due diligence of Vietnamese partners, compliant and workable solutions.

How to defend against digital hijack of your business data, and what to do if you get hit

Cyber criminals have discovered the perfect tool to force modern business owners into the vice of extortion – drop malware onto an unsuspecting network to encrypt all the data and demand payment to provide the key to unlock the data. The attacked business has two choices; either lose access to years of data or pay a ransom to get the data back. The cyber criminals bank on the fact that businesses will pay to rescue their hijacked data.

Such attacks or ransomware are on the rise, fuelled by successful extortion payments. The types of businesses being targeted are expanding, and the delivery methods used to infect systems are becoming increasingly sophisticated. There are also many different types of malware now available; Crypto Wall also known as Crowti, Crypto Locker, FakeBSOD and The FBI scam.

Preparation is essential to surviving such attacks and monitoring of systems is needed to prevent them.

Making it Big in Bangladesh: Do Business Prospects and Opportunities outweigh Political and Security Risks for firms?

Why Bangladesh?
In the current global scenario – plagued by economic slowdown and unrest, India and South Asia have emerged as one of the brighter spots for investment, stability and business growth. Bangladesh represents the new South Asia with its consistent GDP growth, its pivotal location between India, China and Southeast Asia, a thriving business environment, young aspirational population, a stable democratic government and competitive costs. However, Bangladesh also poses several serious questions to investors. These are concerns around terrorism, security, infrastructure, political rivalry, money laundering, large-scale corruption, corporate governance and operational challenges of doing business in the country.

The webinar will discuss whether Bangladesh is a stable and favourable country to conduct business in, what are the business risks, opportunities and regulatory issues involved and whether the reporting on security challenges and business concerns is obsessive or justified. How can businesses be smart and successful in doing business in Bangladesh?

Identifying social compliance issues, particularly forced labor and human trafficking in supply chains, continues to be a significant problem for business, particularly when sourcing from opaque and non-transparent emerging markets. Civil society is playing a large part in increasing awareness and pressuring politicians to introduce and enforce legislation, and is gradually highlighting the issue as a problem which needs to be addressed both by governments and the business community.

Kroll has been researching and working on this issue for a number of years and believes that businesses should be taking the issue as seriously as other forms of compliance.

Kroll’s Cem Ozturk and Shaun Sandu along with US Sanctions expert Peter Kucik

Will Myanmar’s historic elections outcome bring durable change to the country? Who are the forces at play, and what is at stake in the negotiations around the transition to NLD rule? How will the influence of the Myanmar military change (and the companies that have chosen to affiliate with them) change after the election – and what impact will this have on the economy, on US sanctions, and on business?

Join Kroll for an hour long webinar to discuss the historic NLD victory, the state-of-play-among political actors, and the implications for business.

In this webinar, you’ll hear from Kroll cyber security expert Jonathan Fairtlough. He’ll discuss how recent data breaches are showing the need for organizations and advisors to prepare for an attack, and know how to respond when your clients...and sometimes their families, are put at risk.

In this webinar, you’ll hear from cyber security expert Jonathan Fairtlough. He’ll discuss how recent data breaches are showing just how unprepared organizations are in understanding where their data is held, and how to respond when your clients...and sometimes their families, are put at risk.

Jonathan and Kroll have experience with complex cyber investigations, including computer intrusions, insider attacks, ransomware and malware outbreaks, Internet fraud and theft of trade secrets. He has worked with clients on a wide range of cyber concerns, including security policy and implementation, incident investigation and detection, forensic analysis, malware analysis, and breach threat reduction.

Too often cyber security is viewed as an issue relevant only for businesses holding customer data. The reality is quite different. Hackers regularly target all electronic information and systems in a company, and even attack executives and their relationships. Those targeted attacks can put executives at risk of being extorted or manipulated.

More specifically, cyber criminals can wreak havoc by leveraging an executive’s family and community connections, social media, and publicly available digital information. Cyber criminals can even impersonate the executive and compromise highly valued investor or board member relationships.

Learn best practices from experts on how to defend against cyber theft across all spheres, respond to and investigate theft-related breaches or seek legal remedy to recover losses.

Join Kroll’s team as they share the shifting dynamics of Chinese investment into Australia, replete with both risks and rich rewards at every turn. It includes an in-depth interview with Violet Ho, Senior Managing Director, and Richard Dailly, Managing Director at Kroll, who will discuss the most urgent risks of cross-border deal-making, offering insights on conducting pre-transactional due diligence on potential foreign investors.

Is Thailand’s relationship with the West nearing an end? Join Kroll experts for a webinar about the anti-government demonstrations and the “Shutdown Bangkok” campaign and their long term implication and impact to businesses in Thailand.

As Myanmar approaches its pivotal 2015 general elections, recent controversies around transparency, human rights, and political fairness have prompted serious questions about the viability of the country's reform process.

Observers around the region and around the world - including sanctions officials in Washington DC - are monitoring the situation carefully. Will the country remain attractive for foreign investors and emerging market specialists - or slide back in.

Join Kroll's Myanmar team to discuss their views on the state of the country's reform process, likely scenarios in the upcoming elections, and the risks they are seeing

Highlights
- The political stage: actors, factors and risks
-US sanctions and the elections
-The business impact of the elections
-Heightened partner risks

In this webinar, you'll hear from renowned forensic expert
Timothy P. Ryan, Kroll's cyber practice leader and a former Supervisory
Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). He'll
discuss how common situations like this one can require sophisticated
investigation techniques to fully contain and remediate the situation,
and how organizations can put themselves in the best defensible
position when faced with such a breach.

Join Kroll’s Indonesia team as they share their experience investigating risk in one of Asia’s most attractive markets.

Indonesia in 2015 remains one of Asia’s most significant sources of growth, and continues to draw investors from Asia, North America, and Europe. While there is good reason to be hopeful due to a strong new political administration, throughout the economy reputation, corruption, fraud and political risks remain. ​

Kroll’s team will discuss their views on the changing risk environment around Indonesia’s investment opportunities, as well as share their experience researching integrity issues, infrastructure bottlenecks, and sensitive industries.

How can you ensure that an investment target isn’t one keystroke away from a major cyber incident or data breach? How can you be sure that an attacker isn’t already lurking in their network? CYBER DUE DILIGENCE conducted prior to investment can identify actual or potential cyber security lapses, areas that may be at risk, quantify remediation costs and help restructure an investment should substandard cyber security systems data or latent breaches be discovered. Join us for this online event and hear Kroll’s Tim Ryan describe how Kroll cyber experts can help uncover the cyber vulnerabilities you may be buying unwittingly, know if you are buying a company with an undisclosed data breach, and reveal breach-breeding weaknesses in the target company’s culture.

As an architect or engineer, the data you hold on projects, plans and people has great value—and along with that comes great risk to your firm. Clients, subconsultants and even contractors rely on the confidentiality, integrity and availability of that data. This webinar identifies specific cyber liability risks related to design professionals: how you can be attacked, what type of information gets targeted and the potential impact on your firm. Learn to secure your firm against attacks and specific strategies to mitigate your risks, including network and device security, account access best practices and system monitoring strategies. You’ll also receive guidance on special issues like social engineering, cloud safety, social media and email hygiene.